Belgian born Zambian Winger Charly Musonda is set to leave Chelsea Football Club next summer as his offer to play for free this season in an attempt to remain at the Club was turned down and admits he broke down in tears when discussing his future with Technical director and former goalkeeper Petr Cech.

He said on The Beautiful Game Podcast: “I spoke with the manager and I obviously knew what he thought of me in training.

“I explained to him the same thing, I will play here for free. It’s not to do with the contract, I will literally play for free this year.

“I can be the last guy in the squad. Train hard, basically build my way through training, play with the 23s, get some fitness back and from there see.

It’s a long season, there’s a lot of games. I’m not even asking to start those games, I was just saying, if I can come on, get 15, 20 minutes here and there.

“He (Tuchel) understood. We had a good chat and he said, ‘Listen, it’s not up to me. The contract talks are something else.

“Even the post on Instagram, I wasn’t going to be too emotional with it because I didn’t want to go long into the details and go long into the memories of everything.

“I spoke with Petr Cech in August on the phone and after those talks, I knew straight away, okay, I’m going to leave in August here, there is nothing else I can do.

“After the phone call, I was literally crying because I’d been there for a while.

“Even now, it’s going to take some time to get around it.”

It’s been a difficult one,” Musonda added.

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